Benjamin B. Lippincott
Rank: Ensign
Branch: U.S. Navy
Entered the service from: New Jersey
Died:
Buried at: Harleigh Cemetery, Haddon Avenue, Camden NJ
Introduction
Benjamin B. Lippincott
Ensign Benjamin Banyard Lippincott was born on August 7, 1924 to Clarence Willett and Margaret Banyard Lippincott. His father was killed in a 1931 railroad accident. Benjamin B. Lippincott grew up in Haddon Heights NJ. He attended Haddon Heights High School in Haddon Heights NJ, where he played halfback on the varsity football team. Upon graduation in June of 1942 he entered the Navy. After qualifying for flight duty he began his pilot training in March of 1943. He won his wings and was commissioned at Corpus Christi TX in July of that year.
Assigned to the Naval Air Station at Boca Chica FL, Ensign Lippincott was practicing simulated carrier landings flying a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter at the field on March 8, 1945. On his first try at landing he was waved off by the landing signal officer, and in getting away his plane rolled over and hit the ground upside down. Rushed to the field dispensary in a critical condition, he died a half hour later.
Ensign Lippincott was survived by his mother, sister Priscilla, and brothers Summit and Scott Lippincott. He was brought home and buried at Harleigh Cemetery.
Crash Kills Navy Pilot
Crash Kills Navy Pilot
Haddon Heights Youth was Landing Plane in Florida
Ensign Benjamin B. Lippincott, 20, Navy pilot, son of Mrs. Willet Lippincott, of 106 Station av., Haddon Heights, was killed March 8 as he was landing his plane during a practice flight near Key West, Fla. His body is being sent home for burial. Besides his mother, he is survived by two younger brothers, Summit and Scott, and a sister, Priscilla. His father was killed in a railroad accident in 1931. Ensign Lippincott was graduated from Haddon Heights High School and entered pilot training in March, 1943. He was commissioned last July at Corpus Christi, Texas.
Ensign Ben Lippincott Killed When Plane Crashes in Florida
Ensign Benjamin B. Lippincott, son of Mrs. Margaret Lippincott and the late Willett Lippincott, of 106 Station av., Haddon Heights, died Thursday night last within a half hour after his plane had crashed in attempting a landing at the Naval Air Station in Boca Chica, Florida. A wire telling of the fatal accident was received by his mother Saturday morning.
Ensign Lippincott entered the service in March 1943, having graduated from Haddon Heights High School. After many months of training, he received his commission at Corpus Christi, Texas, in July of this year. He had recently been stationed in Florida, where his squadron was in training for flying aboard a carrier.
According to his commanding officer, the squadron was making simulated carrier landings when he attempted to land his plane. Receiving orders to give it more speed he complied, but the plane rolled over and he was crushed beneath, dying a half hour later in the hospital. He never regained consciousness, according to reports. Enlisting two years ago last November, he received his wings last July.
He graduated from Haddon Heights High School, class of ‘42, and played halfback on the varsity football squad. He is survived by his mother, a sister, Priscilla, and two brothers, Summit and Scott.
Ensign Lippincott Plane Victim
Ensign Lippincott Plane Victim
“Hellcat” Pilot Killed While Landing in Florida; Others Reported Killed
Geo. Murray Wounded
Ensign Benjamin B. Lippincott, 20, pilot of a fighter plane Hellcat, was killed almost immediately upon landing his plane last Thursday, March 8, at his training post near Key West, Fla. His mother, Mrs. Willet Lippincott of 106 Station avenue, Haddon Heights, received the word Saturday morning. His father died in 1931.
Ben was qualifying for field carrier landings when he attempted to land his plane. Receiving orders to give it more speed he complied, but the plane turned over and he was crushed beneath, dying a half hour later in the hospital. He never regained consciousness, according to reports. Enlisting two years ago last November, he received his wings last July.
He graduated from Haddon Heights High School, class of ‘42, and played halfback on the varsity football squad. Funeral arrangements are being handled by the William B. Evoy Funeral Home, and notice of services will be given as soon as the escort arrives from Florida. Other survivors are a sister, Priscilla, and two brothers, Summit and Scott.
Funeral services will be held Friday, March 16, at 8:00 p. m. in the Haddon Heights Baptist Church, with Rev. George A. Palmer and Rev. Kenneth Mastelier officiating. Interment will be private.
Lippincott Widow Sues for $225,000
Camden Courier-Post —
Suit for $255,000 was filed in New Jersey Supreme Court yesterday by Mrs. Margaret Lippincott against the Atlantic City Railroad in the death of her husband, Willet Lippincott, of 106 Station Avenue, Haddon Heights, a real estate operator and son of Benjamin A. Lippincott, first mayor of Haddon Heights.
The widow, mother of four children, charges that her husband met his death on the morning of July 23 at the Warwick Road crossing at Magnolia. Lippincott’s truck, loaded with hay, obtained from the farm of his mother, Mrs. Laura Lippincott, on Warwick road, was struck by a northbound Ocean City–Camden train. Lippincott was killed, and the truck and hay set afire when the gasoline tank exploded.
Papers in the suit have been prepared by former Senator Albert S. Woodruff and S. Huntley Beckett, attorneys. Allegations are made in the suit that the railroad was negligent in failing to protect the crossing, which is termed in the charges as “extra-dangerous and extra-hazardous.”
It is alleged further that a signal light at the crossing failed to work properly at the time of the tragedy, and that a curve of the railroad, a bank of earth, poles and other obstacles obstructed the view of an approaching train. No bell or whistle was sounded from the engine of the train, it is charged.
Lippincott met his death although he alighted from his truck to look up and down the tracks at the crossing, according to Woodruff. He had seen a southbound train pass, but was struck by the northbound train. Passengers on the northbound train included Magistrate Dennis F. Fitzgerald, of Philadelphia; Mayor Roy R. Stewart, Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin, City Solicitor E. G. C. Bleakly, Byron M. Seabrook, and Jerome Hurley, of the Hurley Stores, all of whom had summer homes at Ocean City.
Children surviving Lippincott include Priscilla, 8; Benjamin, 6; Summitt, 4, and Scott W. Lippincott, 1 year old.